Prairie Land Food

CSC

Prairie Land Food to the Rescue

     The Prairie Land Food program is not a government program; it is available to everyone regardless of income.  PLF is a 501(c)(3) organization with a goal of providing quality, nutritious food at a low cost to help stretch food dollars.  The program is funded through participation.  The more people that participate, the greater the purchasing power. 

    Our community benefits from this project as well because of you volunteer work each month.  Orders can be paid by check, cash or EBT/Food Stamps.  The order form at www.prairielandfood.com is "under construction", to place you order online, contact June Glasgow at toll free, 1 (800) 998-9436 or by email at  june@prairielandfood.com. The December distribution date is December 16 from 9am - 11am.

     For more information, please feel free to contact June Glasgow.

Community Service Committee

     In an effort to help our fellow members, Carol has been working very hard to assist those in need.  Occasionally there are those of us that struggle with our bills, putting food on the table and clothing our loved ones.  Carol to the rescue.  Her remarkable efforts have helped to provide clothing and shelter for our struggling members in these tough economic times.

     As a whole, our membership has been willingly lending a hand at these past few membership meetings by donating their half and half winnings to the CSC fund in order to help provide for our fellow members with the assistance that they so truly need in their time of struggle. 

     It is with the kindness and caring of our membership that keeps the heart of CSC beating strong.  We all owe it to ourselves to help build a strong CSC.  It may be your saving grace one day.

     Thank you Carol for your hard work, we appreciate all that you do!

1. Many techs returning from Long term disability and they are working on ways to get them back up to speed - on going with sub committee
2. I&R would like to change the 4 foot step ladder out to a 6 ft step ladder - referred to Tool and Safety committee
3. IPDSLAM X box labeling issues - 3 APEX documents have been issued over this problem. We have problems with F1 , F2 , being used with purple and yellow decals on  BP instead of blue an green , some not even  labeled
4. Techs want access to a Duty roster - whose on duty when
5. I & R techs want a battery operated drill to install the 1.25 screws that are needed for the INEDS.
6. Would like to have coordination with the alarm companies about placing modules causing back and forth problems between ATT and the alarm company - retrips
7. Wanting the F1 pairs placed on orders as when techs go to install INED not having the F1 is causing issues.
8. Developing a Chronic investment team between I&R and prem Tech departments. This would identify chronic problems and provide better customer service.  All the second lines were on a call  and this was discussed and tabled
9. 2 man install crews were trialed for 2 weeks. The trial did not go well and it was tabled for review and revisit.
10. Trialing a  collapsable hand cart- Pat to report on this later
11. Flagging dangerous " red" zones as awareness indicators for our techs on GPS
12. Developing decals that will be put on trucks saying " Do Not Carry Cash"
13. Developing a receptacle that will let techs  place suggestion forms into it - St louis is going to use a discarded ,gutted , RG
14. For chronic concerns , a suggestion was made to use  Q chat rooms
15. A joint sub committee in the St Louis area is being created between I&M and Prem Tech departments for comparisons on the old and new JDSU's
16. A designated person , Mike, in St Louis is sending out weekly group page reminders about submitting ideas for PMEI
17. Off phone discussion , shopvacs for garages
18. New suggestion was to have predrilled holes in the new INEDs for quicker installation. Some techs are trialing this to see if its a time saver.
19. New suggestion - design channel guides for visually impaired customers
20. New Suggestion - using peer to peer trainers to bring new techs up to speed in installation of uverse  tenure 3 techs working/mentoring Tenure 2 and Tenure 1 techs for on the job training
21. A new suggestion for mounting a sensor on vehicles to prevent accidents. Gary Ransom said that it usually takes 4 of these to protect the back of the vehicle. May give false sense of security in backing. We dont have that many backing accidents to warrant expense.
22. New suggestion - issue small tv to show customers that the issue in some of their in home problems is their tv.
23. Statement that PMEI is covered in the new employee orientation meetings going on currently and that is a direct result of this DSC and has been adopted all across the Southwest region.